A family says police escorted them and their 3-year-old son off an i9 Sports youth soccer field in Winter Park after the league issued a trespass, following complaints from opposing parents that the boy held the ball too much and was “trying to put on a show.” The incident, captured in video the family posted
Maybe we like, lock you under house arrest - not house and yard arrest, just house arrest. You get a box of clay chips to relieve yourself in and are never ever allowed to go out and touch grass for your entire life, we’ll just let you look out the windows at the world you can smell and hear but never touch, while the rest of us come and go freely as we please, sometimes staying away for days. Oh, I forgot, you do get to “go out” locked in a tiny cage, transported in a way that makes you nauseous to go visit a clinic full of fear stink where they poke you with needles and force feed you foul tasting things, or maybe this is that special visit where they make you unconscious and you wake up having been surgically altered, then it’s back to the house via the vomit box for you.
Not at all surprising that they shit in your shoes when you do that.
Yeah, so, like I said, about once or twice a year, our ecological disaster kills a bird or a squirrel - usually a tiny baby one that had already fallen out of its nest. Meanwhile, if you watch, the hawks and owls are cleaning up, multiple kills nightly just in our yard. Raccoons will eat whatever they can get ahold of, Coyotes are a real hoot… even the turkeys eat more lizards than our cat.
You may be aghast at the statistics of what the 150 million cats, collectively, kill each year in the US- I’m aghast at what we’ve done to our wild spaces where vastly more killing is part of the natural order which dominated this continent until the last 200 years or so. This is what really needs to happen if we’re going to have an ecology: https://eowilsonfoundation.org/eowbf-archive/half-earth-our-planets-fight-for-life
Doesn’t matter what wild animals do. Your domesticated animal should not be allowed to kill indiscriminately. What you see the cat bring back isn’t the full total of its destruction.
Your cat will also push out other predators and has no need to compete for resources with wild animals.
Your domesticated animal should not be allowed to kill indiscriminately.
How many acres of habitat have you and your domesticated humans destroyed for your home, farmland to support your appetites, strip mines, highways, etc. Sure, my domestic cat kills the occasional vulnerable creature in my yard - it is part of the suburban ecology. If you coddle your baby squirrels that fall from the nest and nurse them back to health, that’s your hobby - which is “better for the ecology” is a matter of opinion. Neither is significant.
I’m saying people cause strip mines. People who use coal, and aluminum, and yes: phosphates for farms. How many people live in your house? The land your house is on isn’t the only impact to the global ecology of your existence, you’re also contributing to the construction of roads and the rest of the infrastructure that supports your life in that house, your job wherever you may work, the clear-cut tree farm used to make the toilet paper you use, all of it.
8.32 billion people on this planet, currently negatively impacting 75% of all land on Earth, that’s 3.3 acres per person.
You want to make a difference, work from home, or go vegetarian, or choose not to fly when practical. Bitching about whether cats are inside or outside on the internet is about as meaningful as criticizing Brittney Spears’ choice of eyeshadow color.
Maybe you like, don’t let the cat wander free?
Maybe we like, lock you under house arrest - not house and yard arrest, just house arrest. You get a box of clay chips to relieve yourself in and are never ever allowed to go out and touch grass for your entire life, we’ll just let you look out the windows at the world you can smell and hear but never touch, while the rest of us come and go freely as we please, sometimes staying away for days. Oh, I forgot, you do get to “go out” locked in a tiny cage, transported in a way that makes you nauseous to go visit a clinic full of fear stink where they poke you with needles and force feed you foul tasting things, or maybe this is that special visit where they make you unconscious and you wake up having been surgically altered, then it’s back to the house via the vomit box for you.
Not at all surprising that they shit in your shoes when you do that.
Allowing cats to free roam is a ecological disaster, but sure
Yeah, so, like I said, about once or twice a year, our ecological disaster kills a bird or a squirrel - usually a tiny baby one that had already fallen out of its nest. Meanwhile, if you watch, the hawks and owls are cleaning up, multiple kills nightly just in our yard. Raccoons will eat whatever they can get ahold of, Coyotes are a real hoot… even the turkeys eat more lizards than our cat.
You may be aghast at the statistics of what the 150 million cats, collectively, kill each year in the US- I’m aghast at what we’ve done to our wild spaces where vastly more killing is part of the natural order which dominated this continent until the last 200 years or so. This is what really needs to happen if we’re going to have an ecology: https://eowilsonfoundation.org/eowbf-archive/half-earth-our-planets-fight-for-life
Whataboutism at its finest.
Doesn’t matter what wild animals do. Your domesticated animal should not be allowed to kill indiscriminately. What you see the cat bring back isn’t the full total of its destruction.
Your cat will also push out other predators and has no need to compete for resources with wild animals.
How many acres of habitat have you and your domesticated humans destroyed for your home, farmland to support your appetites, strip mines, highways, etc. Sure, my domestic cat kills the occasional vulnerable creature in my yard - it is part of the suburban ecology. If you coddle your baby squirrels that fall from the nest and nurse them back to health, that’s your hobby - which is “better for the ecology” is a matter of opinion. Neither is significant.
Strip mines? Highways? What?
I’m not sure what you are going for? If I am reading this correctly, you are saying farm cause strip mines?
Yeah… not going to debate this with you if you are spouting nonsense
I’m saying people cause strip mines. People who use coal, and aluminum, and yes: phosphates for farms. How many people live in your house? The land your house is on isn’t the only impact to the global ecology of your existence, you’re also contributing to the construction of roads and the rest of the infrastructure that supports your life in that house, your job wherever you may work, the clear-cut tree farm used to make the toilet paper you use, all of it.
8.32 billion people on this planet, currently negatively impacting 75% of all land on Earth, that’s 3.3 acres per person.
You want to make a difference, work from home, or go vegetarian, or choose not to fly when practical. Bitching about whether cats are inside or outside on the internet is about as meaningful as criticizing Brittney Spears’ choice of eyeshadow color.